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...delegates up for grabs in his home state. But the other Republican candidates are already on the lookout; they have challenged the legality of the state's winner-take-all system, whereby the candidate who gets all the most votes gets all the convention votes. If the challenges succeed and delegates are distributed proportionally, Reagan will be standing on very thin...
With those words he finally settled the question that had titillated the television world for years: Who would succeed Walter Cronkite, the best-known and most respected broadcast journalist of his era? Some time next year Cronkite's program will be rechristened the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and like Cronkite, he will have the title of managing editor. Uncle Walter, 63, who chose to stay out of the selection process for his successor, plans to continue as anchor at least through the presidential inauguration next January. "I've inaugurated every President since Harry Truman," he said last week...
Meanwhile, committees in both the Senate and the House may well continue to demand that the evidence against the members of Congress be yielded by the Justice Department. There is not much likelihood that they will succeed-and without such cooperation they have little or no case against their suspect members...
...Rather, the "60 Minutes" correspondent who gained national attention by his questioning of Richard Nixon on Watergate, will succeed Walter Cronkite early next year as anchorman for the "CBS Evening News, the network said yesterday...
...endeared her to her subjects throughout a 31-year reign, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands told a national television audience that she would abdicate on her 71st birthday this April 30. The occasion for the surprise announcement: the 42nd birthday last week of Crown Princess Beatrix, who will succeed her mother on the throne...